> >When you boot NetBSD with the new partition on the disk, what does 
> 
> I still boot with the internal HD. I wnat to mount the other one
> "extra". After it recognises at sd0 my SCSI 0 boot disk, it recognises
> effectively at sd1 the external HD at SCSI 1 giving the correct model
> and size

Sounds good so far...

> >disklabel say?  It's probably showing up as Slice "g" and needs to be
> 
> what is disklabel? I don't see any letters. I only know the internal
> is mounted on sd0a because you see it with "df". I tried to mount evry
> dev from sd1a to sd1g without result, giving me "unknown file format"
> or something similar.

Try

man disklabel

and see what it says.  A quick intro, though, basically you just need to
do a

disklabel sd1

as root, and it should give you a lot of info on your drive.

> >mounted as sd?g.  Also your /etc/fstab will have to reflect this to
> get 
> 
> >it mounted automatically when you go to multi-user mode.
> 
> I still don;t know the label, so I cant't set fstab.

Try reading the manual pages.  They can be quite helpful at times.

Hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX